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Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Baron de Montesquieu

There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.
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Enough Kind Moral
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
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Hate Running Thinking
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading
Never create by law what can be accomplished by morality.
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Courage Law Morality
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
The less men think, the more they talk.
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Men Philosophical Thinking
Very good laws may be ill timed.
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Good Law May Very
What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.
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Country Men Nothing Worth
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
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Comeback Insult Sexuality
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.
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People Style Writing

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